"Mark is very capable and very competent. He's one of the best managers available," says the man who picked him to run Yves Saint Laurent in 1999. [WWD]

New York is reporting that Tavi Gevinson will be live-tweeting Barneys' Fashion's Night Out celebrations in New York for the store. [The Cut]

Frank Miller directed Evan Rachel Wood in a commercial for a Gucci women's perfume. The ad isn't out yet, but Susana Polo at Styleite takes a minute to remind the liberal, LGBT-friendly, female-dominated fashion industry that Frank Miller, whatever his talents as an auteur, is an unreconstructed misogynist prick-with-ears who makes all his villains feminized men and all his women victims and whores. (Also: he's racist. Very racist.) [Styleite]

The C.E.O. of Pringle of Scotland loves Tilda Swinton, who frequently graces the company's campaigns. "I hope we can have her forever. Today we see so many of the same faces and the same look," she says. "Tilda is a real person who could be anything. You can see her character in her face. She is unique in every way." Also: "She reminds me of Virginia Woolf's Orlando." Uh, does she know Swinton played Orlando? [Vogue UK]

Blow by Blow, Detmar Blow and Tom Sykes' book about the life of the late Isabella Blow, was excerpted in the Daily Mail. The fashion editor and power broker's seventh suicide attempt in fourteen months ended her life; she finally died by drinking weed killer at her country home. Her widower writes that when he heard Isabella had swallowed poison, "my immediate feeling was one of sickening déjà vu: my own father had died in 1977 after drinking weedkiller, and it had killed him in half an hour as the liquid burned out his insides — a story I had shared with Issie the first time we met. My 12-year-old brother, Amaury, was with him at the time and he said that Dadda never cried out, though his fists were clenched in pain." [Daily Mail]

Jessica Szohr: "I personally think Jenny has the best wardrobe on the show — it's kind of grungy, but girly, without being too put together. Blair is too structured and perfect, Serena is always glammed up. Vanessa's waaaay too much with every color and pattern. It sounds like I'm being negative about them all, but I'm not — I think they all look great. But if I was going to go shopping for [me], I'd head straight into Jenny's closet." [Nylon]

Sixteen-year-old Tanzanian model Henrieth Paul is beginning her first show season in New York. "I like playing basketball. Shopping. And I like dancing. Bad dancing! Have you ever met a model that can dance? No. Most of the models that I've seen dance, they're really bad. But not to talk about them — I'm really bad, too! You don't want to see. It's embarrassing." She would like to be a social worker when she grows up. [WWD]